Canadian Artist Shares What Happened After Doing A Facebook Search on Her Childhood Bully
Whether you were bullied or the bully, this will resonate with you.
Just about everyone has been bullied or has been a bully at some point in their life, usually during their schooling. It's all part of growing up within the fierce and primal social hierarchy that is the schoolyard. Meghan Lands is a Canadian artist who decided she wanted to see what her childhood bully was up to now, many years after school had finished. What she found and illustrated is a deeply profound realization that not all people's experiences are the same as hers, and that not everyone looks back on their childhoods in the same way. She decided to illustrate her findings in a comic, which has resonated deeply with others and gone viral on Tumblr.
It starts with a simple thought.
Backstory seems very middle school.
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Oh, the things we thought were important in high school.
Okay, this is bringing back memories now.
Original tactics here.
I'm sure these revelations about the underlying reasons for the behavior have come from years of reflecting on these parts of her life.
Yep - the apple rarely falls far from the tree.
Coping mechanism?
God, kids can be cruel to each other.
We all know this feeling...
The artist did well to deal with all of this at a young age.
Seems like a healthy approach.
I bet this felt good.
But violence is never the answer.
...and here comes the hard part.
They're all still friends?
All those people you couldn't wait to never see again.
She's all grown up.
Yoga fixes everything.
Perspective is everything.
I'm not crying; you're crying.
There has been an outpouring of people with whom Lands' comic has resonated.
